Things are progressing, although not as well as I'd have hoped. I encountered my usual issues with Roden decals when I added the first of the stripes at the rear of the fuselage and it disintegrated. I ended up painting all four stripes instead. The 'W' and 'Schweinhund' decals also disintegrated to a lesser degree so I was able to patch them with white paint. Unfortunately, despite several applications of gloss coats, all decals have silvered a bit at points around their edges.
The cabane struts are wound with masking tape and painted and weathered with various Tamiya colours. There are no locating guides to obtain the correct angles for these struts, so I measured the distances between the mounting holes in the top wing and set the struts accordingly. Hopefully, they'll be close to correct but I'm not holding my breath. I also cut some pressed strengthening ribs into the front face of the fuel tank.
The engine fit perfectly into the fuselage, but I'm not even going to try to install the covers as I can tell that my sparkplug wiring would interfere with them. I like to see the engine anyways and have always left them exposed in my previous builds.
The seatbelts are from HGW and I had to cheat a bit with them as by the time they arrived in the mail, the fuselage was already buttoned up. I still need to weather and seal them.
In this last image, I've just shown the tailplane press fit in place. I still need to do some further detail work there before I finalize it. Next step is to figure out the rigging mounting points and install all of the eyelets.
Thanks for looking.
Cheeers,
Chris
P.S. This thing is aptly named! It's definitely a schweinhund to me!
